Prof. Hilary Duffield
Hilary Duffield is emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Trier. She studied English Literature and German (BA Hons) and gained a PhD in German Literature at Cardiff University, Wales, later also qualifying for the German Habilitation with a postdoctoral thesis in English Literature at the University of Freiburg. She worked as assistant professor of English literature at the universities of Cologne (1992-95) and Freiburg (1995-2002), as associate professor of New English Literatures at the University of Leipzig (2002-2005), and as full professor of English Studies and Anglophone Literatures at the University of Bayreuth (2005-2009) before joining Trier English department in 2009.
Main areas of research:
- Cognitive approaches to narrative.
- Environmental narratives in fiction and film
- The history of narrative fiction in English from the Renaissance to the present
- Narrative theory
- British and American television and cinematic narratives
- Postcolonial narratives, in particular South African and Nigerian narrative fiction
- Post-imperial Britain and Anglophone diaspora identities
Current Projects:
- Invasion narratives in Anglophone fiction, film and television
- The history of anthropogenic environmental crisis and disaster in narrative fiction and film media
Office Hours
Please email hilary.duffielduni-trierde for a Zoom timeslot.
